Benefits for Continuing Education

Benefits for Continuing Education

As a 35 year old that is returning to further my education, I have found it interesting that I am in a majority. By todays standards students are much older than they used to be.

It has become increasingly important for us working to improve and increase our skills just to maintain our jobs.

Education has become a must for either branching out into other fields or for advancement where we presently work. Often even lateral moves require different courses you must take and/or experience.

There are also many personal reasons for going back to school. We have often stopped our thirst few or knowledge, put it on hold, to meet the needs of our families. As they become more independent, we are now able to exert our own independence. Our focus may return to our desire for knowledge and learning new areas of interest.

Naturally, there is also a financial benefit. Many people have been kept in the same economic class, with only cost of living raises, and sometimes, not even that! As a nurse, I started out as middle class, and now according to new national standards of income, have joined the lower middle class strata.

To summarize the reasons for continuing education:

-Keep present job

-Advancement within present field

-Ability to branch out into other fields

-Desire to learn and gain new knowledge, skills and perspectives

-Financial Gain

There is also the important of contributing to the nursing profession in areas of research, management and teaching.

(www.articles.com/college+university-articles./benefits-of-continuing-education-2145209.htm., 2010)